The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.